Penny Ashton

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Auckland-based actor and writer on her latest show 'Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen' taking place at the Auckland Fringe Festival. Audio

Celebrities, never ones to let a natural disaster pass without giving their ill-timed two cents worth, have been very vocal since Hurricane Sandy hit. Quade Cooper's future in Australian rugby. An… Audio

Sir Geoffrey Palmer has triggered some media response after speaking to a conference on accident compensation. The New York Marathon is the world's largest, with a field of nearly 50,000 runners. Audio

Topics - America has been remembering Neil Armstrong, who died at the weekend from complications from a heart procedure. Only half of the country's wealthy individuals worth more than 50 million… Audio

Topics - The Whanganui District Council has lost its legal bid to prevent the serial sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson being released from jail to live in the local prison grounds. A soldier who… Audio

Topics - Britain's Treasury minister comes out saying that paying tradespeople in cash is morally wrong. A bill that would allow New Zealanders to have a day off on Monday whenever ANZAC or Waitangi… Audio

Topics - Macsyna King says she's ''very happy'' with a coroner's finding that her twin sons, Chris and Cru, died while in the sole care of their father, Chris Kahui. The landmark report from coroner… Audio

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Topics - The Cook Street Chorus with your complaints for another week. The FBI is warning that hundreds of thousands of computers will simultaneously lose access to the internet on July 9, unless… Audio

Topics - Would you call any move towards "judicial control of some womens' reproductive rights another insidious step on the slippery road to State eugenics"? The value of the average chief executive… Audio

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Topics - Plastic surgery will likely make you look nine years younger than you really are, a new study suggests. In Britain, an inquest has heard that firemen and police left a man floating face down… Audio

Topics - The American lawyer for Kim Dotcom says he's confident the New Zealand courts won't hand over his client to US authorities. Australia's fascinating political soap opera has taken another… Audio

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Topic - more than half of all New Zealanders want the price of cheap alcohol increased and liquor trading hours tightened, according to a previously unpublished survey. Audio

Topics - the Greens say a high-level committee will do nothing for the thousands of people living in poverty in New Zealand and a New Zealander who has been accused of multi-million dollar fraud in… Audio

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Topics - Prosecutions against five high-ranking Khmer Rouge cadres are set to be dropped as United Nations trials in Phnom Penh collapse amid farce and acrimony. The Wallabies have nothing to fear… Audio

Topics - The container ship Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe reef near Tauranga on Wednesday morning, appears to be breaking up. A Labour-led Government would consider introducing weekly… Audio